World History

Hammer of the Gods: King Olaf's Viking Conquest

Weaving together Norse sagas and Anglo-Saxon chronicles to vividly depict the violence and spectacle...

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€24.00

Lords of the Salt Road: The Norse Earls of Orkney and the Viking World

The story of the Norse Earls of Orkney, whose lands once covered much of Scotland, and whose reach e...

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€26.60

Red Dawn Over China: How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity

A FINANCIAL TIMES HIGHLIGHT FOR 2026'The most important reappraisal of modern China to appear in yea...

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€22.90

Comrades: Communism: A World History

An acclaimed examination of the global history of communism, from one of the finest historians of mo...

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€13.50

Belarus: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Recent events have thrust Belarus into the international spotlight, but for years after declaring in...

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€16.60

All We Say: A History of the United States in Fifteen Speeches

What does it mean to be American? Who gets to decide?This sweeping history of the United States thro...

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€21.60

Hinterlands: Journeys Through Europe’s Unfinished Frontiers

A timely eyewitness account of the overlooked territories where the new Cold War is playing out '...

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€26.60

The Roma: A Travelling History

A profoundly personal and moving portrait of a misunderstood people and their on-going journey – she...

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€17.50

The Breast: A Cultural and Political History

While sometimes described as a secondary sex characteristic, the female breast is of primary interes...

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€31.50

FLICK: The Story of Female Pleasure

Meet the women throughout history who, quite literally, came before us.From the host of award-winnin...

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€22.90

Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China

"Astonishing...Brings to life a thriving – and rather civilized – empire" - The Telegraph"sparkles w...

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€15.70

The Far Edges of the Known World: A New History of the Ancient Past

'A tour of those far-flung places where Romans rarely dared to venture' The Times'A strikingly origi...

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€15.70

The House of War: The Struggle between Christendom and the Caliphate

'A fascinating history', Charles Moore, The SpectatorA powerful history of the most significant mili...

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€16.70

The Nuclear Age: An Epic Race for Arms, Power and Survival

On 16 July 1945, the Nuclear Age began with the explosion of the first atomic bomb and the words of...